Update - Thursday, May 8, 2008

Updated Zaishen Rewards

* Added the new Zaishen title track, which can be displayed in the Hall of Monuments. Each rank in the Zaishen title track unlocks a new emote. To display the emote, enter /Zaishen or /Zrank once rank 1 or higher has been unlocked on the account.

* Added new monthly tonics to the Zaishen Chest. These new tonics will alternate each month.

For more information on the additions to the Zaishen rewards, please visit:
http://www.guildwars.com/competitive...aishenrewards/

Automated Tournaments

* Updated Automated Tournament map rotations.

* Increased the number of tournament reward points awarded for Monthly Automated Tournaments to 4,500 for GvG, and 1,500 for 1v1.

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug that caused an infrequent crash when a Signet of Capture was used.

* Fixed a bug that caused Heroes to not use spells on allies under the effects of Spell Breaker, Shadow Form, and Obsidian Armor.

* Fixed a bug that caused Assassin Heroes to occasionally attempt to use dagger skills when they did not yet meet the combo requirements.

* Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Refined Jelly art to appear as white and become unstackable with other items of the same name.

Miscellaneous

* The Xunlai Tournament House NPC now offers prizes for the April tournament and can be found in the Great Temple of Balthazar, Lion's Arch, Kaineng Center, and Kamadan.

* Improved Hero AI for using the Necromancer skill Feast for the Dead.

* Improved Hero AI for using the Necromancer skill Taste of Death.

* Improved Hero AI for using the Monk skill Dwayna’s Sorrow.

* Updated buff effects from Ritualist spirits to show the time remaining on the buff.

* Altered the text color for the Everlasting Tonics to green to better distinguish them from other drops found in the Zaishen Chest.

* Altered the icon colors for Beetle Juice Tonic, Transmogrifier Tonic, and Yuletide Tonic to prepare for new tonics to be added in the next year.

WTF at Zaishen emotes? Discuss.

My first impression was ''Oh great, another way for people to make ''In your face'' jerk moves after killing someone. But come to think of it, they may not really hold that much ''E-leetness-status'' if you will, who knows.

PvE'rs finally get emotes.

What a freaking useless, stupid update.

So... no skill adjustments. I'm more worried about that than a silly title being buyable.

ROFL ROFL!!!

*When you use a Zaishen Key on a Zaishen Chest, you get 5 Zaishen Reputation Points.

Thats over 20k Z keys to max the title. @ 2.5k each thats over 50 mill.

How about improve Hero AI (run like hell if someone is targetting you, especially when u get hit by Maelstrom, Meteor Shower, etc.) Enemy AI kites like champs. Why cant our own buddy AI grow brains like the rest of the freaking game.


Allow hero Henchies use of URSAN....so u dont have to do crap.

but the price of keys is gonna sky rocket to double what it was so pretty much this is the biggest money sink title ever

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0287046&page=7
already a thread about the emote.

woooo, way to ruin a decent title, should have been based on faction accumulated

Short posts are what I do.

This is stupid.

Apparently you guys missed the like 6 page long thread about this posted an hour ago.

Can anyone tell me what the new hb map rotation is. I cant find on wiki or guildwars.com

So intead of making emotes for KoaBD which you can not buy( yes u can buy a few of the titles, but not all), they add this buy a emote title. Why is Pvp getting any more rewards. Only thing i can see how fix this is to allow people to trade in skill points for Zkeys.

That's very nice

anet phailz imo

Lol, the more I think about it, the funnier the whole title thing becomes.

All it will say is ''Oh look, I have a lot of money'' heh.

Its not like it takes 5 minutes to farm up z keys. The averager pvper will get 1 key every 30-45 min and thats not even 2 keys an hr which would be 6k an hr. So stop QQ about pvpers getting rewards because the average pvpers dont get nearly as much reward as the average pveer.

Hey guys! Are you ready to literally piss money into the whole of zaishen!? You can now with Zaishen title track! How you do it...

1. Get a lot of gold
2. Let the price skyrocket
3. ????
4. You win!

/age = 35 months. Where do i find Zaishen keys anyway? Is it Quest based or another Expansion?

To be fair Thizzle and others, the z-chest is NOT a gold sink. The money doesn't just vanish, it goes to other (financially smarter) players.

We better let the chinese gold farmers back on!

Im loving the Ai update on Dwayna's Sorrow.

thats.. about... it.

Celly do /dance
Celly do /boo
Celly can you do the emote plz

o lawd

Biggest?...there is absolutely no gold sink whatsoever with zaishen keys. What are you talking about?

Good news for Key sellers atleast. :3

Keys are 5k now.

I like the new tonic lol.

Oh yeah, Anet, the title should have worked like teh kurz/lux titles, only add to it when you USE balth faction, not open the chest. Keys are buyable.

I only got 50 out of the 125 points I was supposed to get :\

Money sink = The game takes the gold. Gold no longer exists on the server.
Selling keys from one person to another does not remove the gold from the game.

So, this is NOT a money sink. Maybe for your own pockets, not for the game.

Learn to retroactive titles

Same happend here, but I logged in again and got my 75 points I was missing

The only thing I really cared about knowing. But an update is an update and nothing got nerfed... at least I think nothing did...

shit if only i had 50 platinum darn, i could buy keys off people who dont know about title before they skyrocket

And how much does a average pver make in a hour. With the current price of 5k per zkey, a pvp will make ~10k a hour. But this is through natural game play, not farming ( you can farm zkey, called zchallege). Do you honestly think people get 10k a hour through natural pve play, not farming/ running people. A average Cof run that runs 30-40 minutes, a leacher can make 5k. So for pve to make the same income as pvp, they have to actively farm, not do natural play like the pvper.

Or nothing got buffed, so its quite a boring update unless, of course, you think the Z title is exciting...

It costs a little bit more than 50k, you know...

Hey, look: Skill > time.

Nah, jk.

lol my bad math oops
C'mon people can i finally see a KOABD in pre now theres a new account based title

Joy more silly titles, and this one comes with an emote how special.

And guess what its a chest opener title.

GO GO PVP TREASURE HUNTER TITLE.

lol if a leacher can make 5k in 30-40min without doing anything while pvpers actually have to do something and do it well if they plan to get any keys or cash. Beside those that run cof make more then 5k a run (try 15-20k). And keys dont ussualy go for 5k each this will be around for 2 weeks before the prices are back to 3k.

edit. ok how many pvers dont spend over 50% of their time farming because those that can do. After people spend 20 hrs to beat the game they go and farm and farm and farm.

This is ridiculous. You basically have two major bugs in the assassin AI, one which prevents every build using both a lead and a dual attack from working (in other words, virtually every dagger based assassin build) and another bug which causes them to incorrectly use a dual attack after another dual attack. Obviously fixing the second bug doesn't make sense if you don't fix the other bug first, but apparently Anet thinks otherwise.

Because MM AI is so horribly bad that it really needs bug fixes. These skills are also used a lot in Hero Battles, so the format will definitely benefit from these updates. It's not like there are more important AI bugs that need to be fixed.